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fastcompany.com July 17, 2018
Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Don Norman

“Science Finds–Industry Applies–Man Conforms.” That was the motto of the Chicago 1933 International Exposition. I used it as the epigraph of my 1993 book, Things That Make Us Smart, suggesting that it be flipped to read “People Propose, Technology Conforms.
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hackernoon.com July 18, 2018
How Does Blockchain Technology Work?

The first blockchain was conceptualized by an individual (or group of individuals) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008.
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technologyreview.com July 19, 2018
Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

Throughout the 1950s, the US, the Soviet Union, and others tested thermonuclear weapons in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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medium.com July 17, 2018
Netflix Cloud Security SIRT releases Diffy: A Differencing Engine for Digital Forensics in the Cloud

The Netflix Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) announces the release of Diffy under an Apache 2.0 license.
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theatlantic.com July 20, 2018
The Authors Who Love Amazon

For most of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, an unfamiliar face topped the site’s Author Rank page: Mike Omer, a 39-year-old Israeli computer engineer and self-published author whose profile picture is a candid shot of a young, blond man in sunglasses sitting on grass.
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theatlantic.com July 19, 2018
Why Facebook Wants to Give You the Benefit of the Doubt

In an unusually revealing moment for Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg told Recode’s Kara Swisher on Wednesday that he didn’t support taking down content about Holocaust denial on Facebook. Zuckerberg is Jewish, and he finds such denials “deeply offensive,” he said.
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nytimes.com July 18, 2018
When a Tech Reporter Doesn’t Use Much Tech

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? David Streitfeld, a technology reporter in San Francisco, discussed the tech he’s using — and not using. For a tech journalist, you don’t use a lot of tech.
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theverge.com July 18, 2018
Netflix’s Secret City shows how technology is changing spycraft

In one scene in Secret City, the 2016 Australian series now playing on Netflix, a spy comes to a park with a bag of bread crumbs, feeding birds as a cover for picking up an encoded message.
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theatlantic.com July 19, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg Is Doubly Wrong About Holocaust Denial

This week, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off another firestorm about Facebook when he appeared to defend the intentions of Holocaust deniers on the platform.
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youtube.com June 7, 2017
Your Whole Wallet In One Card

This giant box just showed up... https://youtu.be/R4vx_GWWiTA?list=PL7...Fuze Card - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fu...Is the Fuze card the future of payments?FOLLOW ME IN THESE PLACES FOR UPDATESTwitter - http://twitter.com/unboxtherapyFacebook - http://facebook.com/lewis.hilsentegerInstagram
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slate.com January 4, 2016
Who Controls Your Facebook Feed

Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action.
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digg.com March 12, 2017
The Story Of WinRAR's Neverending 40-Day Trial

17 diggs Internet Curious Video Technology If you've ever used WinRAR past its trial period (and you probably have), maybe you thought it was supposed to stop working after 40 days. Not so.
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bamboo.wacom.com December 19, 2015
Notes to Our Future Selves: Bamboo Spark and Calm Technology

Amber Case has been deeply integrated in technology since her first coding job at 14 years old. Today, she is known for many things: cyborg anthropologist, writer, speaker, product developer and author.
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thoughtworks.com December 16, 2015
Implications of Tech Stack Complexity for Executives

In order for you to thrive in the digital environment, you need to understand the implications of the changing technology landscape on your organization.
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technologyreview.com January 13, 2017
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products forms a powerful cornerstone for 21st century society.
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fastcompany.com December 19, 2017
The 25 Best New Apps Of 2017

For all the talk of peak app, 2017 was a surprisingly inventive year for makers of apps and software, from the industry’s giants to intrepid startups.
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tomtunguz.com January 27, 2017
The Software Startup Sectors Raising the Most Capital in 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market.
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mashable.com May 19, 2012
6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a global digital agency based in Brooklyn, and author of Users Not Customers. He has spent more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and management consultant. Jobs in tech are stronger than ever.
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techcrunch.com December 14, 2017
There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it

Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private “unicorns” valued at $1 billion-plus, there has been a quiet, barely noticed implosion in early-stage VC activity worldwide. The chart below is dramatic, and accurate.
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e-flux.com December 19, 2016
How To Kill People: A Problem of Design

I saw the future. It was empty. In his 1963 film “How to Kill People” designer George Nelson argues that killing is a matter of design, next to fashion and homemaking. Nelson states that design is crucial in improving both the form and function of weapons.
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newyorker.com February 21, 2014
The Problem with Easy Technology

In the history of marketing, there’s a classic tale that centers on the humble cake mix. During the nineteen-fifties, there were differences of opinion over how “instant” powdered cake mixes should be, and, in particular, over whether adding an egg ought to be part of the process.
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hbr.org March 30, 2017
How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

In 1900, 30 million people in the United States were farmers. By 1990 that number had fallen to under 3 million even as the population more than tripled. So, in a matter of speaking, 90% of American agriculture workers lost their jobs, mostly due to automation.
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mashable.com August 2, 2015
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass.
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medium.com September 17, 2015
131 Actionable Ideas from Ten Books I Wish I Had Read Ages Ago

I highly recommend you read these books and form your own takes. But if you only have 45–90 seconds time blocks, here is a list of times to go through the actionable ideas from each book. · Strive to have a growth mindset. It will allow you to develop and improve your abilities.
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businessinsider.com April 15, 2017
There's a dark secret at the heart of artificial intelligence: no one really understands how it works

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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theatlantic.com March 8, 2018
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News

To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. It was hyperbole three centuries ago. But it is a factual description of social media, according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published Thursday in Science.
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buzzfeed.com April 1, 2015
I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Life

I've broken this story up into three chapters. It should never have gone this far, but the internet works in mysterious ways. None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It's truly crazy.
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inc.com April 25, 2017
10 Breakthrough Technologies That Are About to Change the World

Any fool on the street can tell you that technology is changing at a whiplash-inducing pace. What's much more difficult to predict is which technologies specifically are about to hit big.
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theguardian.com November 7, 2015
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months

As they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable time. His hair was matted upwards like a shrub.
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searchengineland.com
What Is SEO / Search Engine Optimization?

What Is SEO? All major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo have primary search results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users.
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technologyreview.com October 10, 2017
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the 1990s, came the first dating websites. Match.com went live in 1995. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early 2000s. And the 2012 arrival of Tinder changed dating even further.
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entrepreneur.com May 26, 2015
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster

If only. For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time for. And as information becomes more readily accessible online, the number of things we want to learn has only increased. That means that the only variable we can actually control is the time we spend learning them.
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medium.com March 14, 2018
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions. That can be a little bit hard to understand if we only judge tech as a set of consumer products that we purchase.
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lifehacker.com
This Page Lets You Disable a Lot of Google's Activity Tracking

Google tracks a lot of your data. If you’re comfortable with that, it can make your life a little easier. If you’re not, it can be a pain to figure out how to turn it off. Fortunately, there’s one settings page where you can disable a lot of it.
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theatlantic.com August 2, 2017
Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting There

I sit down at the table, move my napkin to my lap, and put my phone on the table face-down. I am at a restaurant, I am relaxed, and I am about to start lying to myself. I’m not going to check my phone, I tell myself. (My companion’s phone has appeared face-down on the table, too.
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recode.net June 15, 2017
Can your CTO still code?

Many chief technology officers study technology, consider different architectures and challenge their team to deliver products and services. The problem with this approach is that many CTOs today no longer maintain application development proficiencies.
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snmaynard.com October 17, 2012
Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago

I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and I’ve found it to be a very capable database. As with all databases, there are some gotchas, and here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.
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cjr.org October 4, 2016
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive.
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hbr.org May 29, 2017
How the Meaning of Digital Transformation Has Evolved

Think back to 2007. A young U.S. senator named Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president. The housing bubble started to burst. Apple released the first iPhone.
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theatlantic.com October 12, 2017
What Facebook Did to American Democracy

In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.
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fastcodesign.com July 7, 2017
Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

Tony Fadell’s wife likes to remind him when their three children’s eyes are glued to their screens that it’s at least partly his fault. Hard to argue.
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lifehacker.com March 27, 2015
How to Future Proof Your Career with the Skills That Matter

The job market can be scary, but with skills that stand the test of time, you can increase your odds of staying employed. Here's how to find and develop future-proofed skills so you can keep that steady paycheck, no matter what happens.
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medium.com January 3, 2015
A Teenager’s View on Social Media

I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this discussion. This is where I would like to provide my own humble opinion.
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businessinsider.com April 13, 2018
This chart shows every major technological innovation in the last 150 years — and how they have changed the way we work

LONDON — Humanity is always moving forward with innovation after innovation improving global quality of life. The last 150 years have seen the most remarkable advancement of technology in history.
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rework.withgoogle.com November 17, 2015
The five keys to a successful Google team

Update: Check out the re:Work guide Understand team effectiveness for the full story on Google's team effectiveness research as well as tools to help teams foster psychological safety.
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vox.com June 3, 2015
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

I'm a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations.
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theatlantic.com March 23, 2018
This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook

After five days of silence, Mark Zuckerberg finally acknowledged the massive data compromise that allowed Cambridge Analytica to obtain extensive psychographic information about 50 million Facebook users.
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economist.com April 29, 2017
Technology firms and the office of the future

FROM the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, 920 feet above the ground, San Francisco’s monuments look piddling. The Bay Bridge, Coit Tower and Palace of Fine Arts are dwarfed by the steel-and-glass headquarters that will house the software company when it is completed later this year.
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medium.com February 3, 2015
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference.
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blog.feedly.com March 14, 2013
Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly – Feedly Blog

Welcome to all the new Google Reader users migrating to feedly. Here are some tips on how to adapt to the feedly desktop interface. To import your google reader feeds and categories over to feedly, simply login to your feedly using your google account.
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theguardian.com April 18, 2016
They called it 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian moderator

A couple of years ago somebody sent me a link to a tweet. It said: “Moderating comments at the Guardian must be the worst job in the world.
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anildash.com April 8, 2018
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that determine how tech affects our lives.
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theverge.com November 17, 2016
Perfecting your digital assistant

Your company exists, in part, because mobile devices enable us to demand consumer-quality experiences in our work software. Five years from now-ish, how close will we be to parity between work and consumer software? Will we even recognize a distinction ultimately between these two things?
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medium.com May 25, 2013
The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I scrolled down I can find 4 stories I actually care about, from a list of about 30.
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reactionwheel.net May 27, 2016
Disruption is not a strategy

I was at a research lab to talk about commercialization. The presenter put up a slide of some exciting new technologies. The slide’s tagline said these technologies would “disrupt the biomedical industry.
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blog.kissmetrics.com
How to Get Google to Index Your New Website & Blog Quickly

Whenever you create a new website or blog for your business, the first thing you probably want to happen is have people find it. And, of course, one of the ways you hope they will find it is through search.
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fool.com January 10, 2018
The Basics of Blockchain Technology, Explained in Plain English

Historically, no asset has been a greater source of wealth creation than the stock market. Throughout its history, stocks have returned an average of 7% per year, inclusive of dividend reinvestment, and when adjusted for inflation.
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hbr.org March 7, 2017
How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends.

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. But it’s only as valuable as it is secure.
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medium.com December 7, 2017
Artwork Personalization at Netflix

For many years, the main goal of the Netflix personalized recommendation system has been to get the right titles in front each of our members at the right time.
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theverge.com November 8, 2016
Delivery drones will mean the end of ownership

What does a day look like five to 10 years from now? The real answer is I don’t know, and much more importantly, I don’t think anyone knows. Trying to prognosticate is a very dangerous business.
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tbaggery.com April 19, 2008
A Note About Git Commit Messages

I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commit message. I think the best practices for commit message formatting is one of the little details that makes Git great. Understandably, some of the first commits to rails.
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nytimes.com October 25, 2017
Staying Private on the New Facebook

Facebook is a personal vault that can contain photos of your firstborn, plans to bring down your government and, occasionally, a record of your indiscretions. It can be scoured by police officers, partners and would-be employers. It can be mined by marketers to show tailored advertisements.
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lifehacker.com August 23, 2013
How Can I Find Out Where an Email Really Came From?

Emails get spoofed. Sometimes, "Bill" isn't really Bill. And sometimes the fraudulent email will make it past spam filters and into your inbox. Don't get fooled. Find out the real sender by quickly analyzing your email headers. The Super Users at Stack Exchange tell you how.
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medium.com January 27, 2015
Hey there, we added +100 more free resources and moved to our website:

Curated on +50 tech blogs & websites such as TNW, Buffer Blog, Product Hunt, Angellist, Pickcrew, Betalist, etc. More about me here. You can also check out some of my other top articles:
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technologyreview.com August 7, 2017
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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aeon.co January 24, 2018
A fault in our design

On 10 February 1853, a ship named the Charles Mallory arrived in port in Honolulu, Hawaii, having made the journey from San Francisco in only 13 days, a near-record time, particularly for a ship of its small size.
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technologyreview.com September 9, 2016
The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe

In the last couple of years, deep learning techniques have transformed the world of artificial intelligence. One by one, the abilities and techniques that humans once imagined were uniquely our own have begun to fall to the onslaught of ever more powerful machines.
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washingtonpost.com July 21, 2016
Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration. Here’s why we often hate new stuff.

Humans have a habit of stalling their own progress. From coffee to mechanical refrigeration to genetically altered food, history is littered with innovations that sparked resistance before becoming fixtures in everyday life.
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telegraph.co.uk January 9, 2003
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
Hail the maintainers

Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite.
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macworld.com October 31, 2013
Why (and how) I'm saying goodbye to Gmail

It was great while it lasted, but I finally broke up with Gmail.
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media.mit.edu December 20, 2017
Our response to "A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin" – MIT Media Lab

On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. The headline stated that the currency “could outperform Bitcoin.” However, we here at the MIT Media Lab have issues with the story.
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forbes.com February 4, 2015
The Uberpreneur: How An Uber Driver Makes $252,000 A Year

The man sitting beside me is sharing the most insightful business advice I’ve heard lately. His ideas are as unconventional as the location of our conversation. We’re not in a coffee shop or a corner office. We’re in an Uber and he’s my driver.
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lifehacker.com January 2, 2008
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail.
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medium.com August 3, 2015
Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video

I’m a professional YouTube creator. Some people think that this is some kind of joke but I have 30 employees. All of them work in the online video industry, about half of them work directly on producing videos for our educational YouTube channels. We’re a small, profitable business.
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forbes.com July 29, 2015
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield (Photo credit: Carlo Ricci for Forbes) George Anders , Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. This story appears in the August 17, 2015 issue of Forbes.
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moz.com March 4, 2014
In the wonderful world of SEO!

The Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an in-depth tutorial on how search engines work. This guide covers the fundamental strategies that make your websites search engine–friendly. Download your copy of the world's most-read guide on SEO!
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medium.com April 20, 2014
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture.
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daringfireball.net April 8, 2015
The Apple Watch

Apple Watch is, in many ways, the Bizarro iPhone — in some ways parallel and similar, but in others, the inverse, the opposite. Both were introduced as three things in one. Steve Jobs, introducing the iPhone back in 2007: “The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls.
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medium.com November 14, 2014
6 links that will show you what Google knows about you

Want to find out all the things Google knows about you? Here are 6 links that will show you some of the data Google has about you. In order to serve relevant ads, Google collects data about you and creates a profile. You can control and review the information Google has on you here:
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huffingtonpost.com January 20, 2015
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It seems obvious.
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squawker.org October 25, 2017
Blockchain Just Became Obsolete. The Future is Hashgraph

Swirlds is a software platform that has developed the hashgraph consensus algorithm: an entirely new distributed ledger technology that is much more cost-effective (no proof-of-work), 50,000 times the speed, safer (Byzantine), more efficient (no stale blocks) and mathematically fairer than the bloc
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lowercasecapital.com June 3, 2015
What Twitter Can Be.

Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not speak for Twitter. 4) I have no inside information about Twitter.
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adweek.com June 13, 2016
Snapchat Launches a Colossal Expansion of Its Advertising, Ushering in a New Era for the App

Imran Khan was an internet-focused investment banker at Credit Suisse, where, in September 2014, he orchestrated Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's high-profile IPO.
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aeon.co March 13, 2018
Fast-world values

More than 40 years ago, as a young woman in Melbourne, Australia, I had a pen friend in Papua New Guinea. She lived in a coastal village, an hour’s slow boat trip from the city of Lae. I went to visit her.
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martinshervington.com June 8, 2013
What is Google Plus? A Complete User Guide. (Videos and Blog)

If you think Google Plus is just another social site, you are in for a big surprise. What has been created is, put simply, a phenomenal tool for human communication, and much more. But it takes you to experience it, embrace it and ‘get it’ before this realisation really comes.
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hbr.org December 1, 2015
What Is Disruptive Innovation?

The theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in these pages in 1995, has proved to be a powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth.
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locusmag.com March 22, 2015
Cory Doctorow: Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech

At long last, the techlash has arrived, and not a minute too soon. I have been involved in the tech industry since I got my first programming job in 1988. I’ve been a sysadmin, a CIO, a trainer, a software company founder, and an activist.
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hbr.org September 29, 2017
How to Teach Employees Skills They Don’t Know They Lack

After spending billions of dollars a year on corporate learning, U.S. companies probably assume that their employees have the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their jobs. The employees themselves probably think they’re prepared, too, having gone through these exercises.
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fastcompany.com January 6, 2015
The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon’s Future

It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has barely taken his seat on stage when his interviewer throws out that brusque query. It’s the question on the lips of every one of the 400 attendees of this tech conference, but it’s still a jarring moment.
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theatlantic.com October 2, 2017
Google and Facebook Failed Us

In the crucial early hours after the Las Vegas mass shooting, it happened again: Hoaxes, completely unverified rumors, failed witch hunts, and blatant falsehoods spread across the internet.
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